CCS 125

The Way of Saint James, or ¿Camino de Santiago¿ is a centuries-old pilgrimage across Northern Spain that brings half a million pilgrims each year to the town of Santiago de Compostela in the heart of Galicia, in the Spanish Northwest. Several trails exist that lead to Santiago, but the most popular is the Camino francés, a 500-mile trek that starts in Southern France. This course will explore travel narratives written by pilgrims walking along the Camino, using various forms (books, blogs, films, social media posts, reels), with different styles of writing or narrating and many reasons for sharing the experience. We will explore the nature and meaning of doing a pilgrimage or other long-distance walks and will practice critical thinking, personal narrative writing, public speaking, and research skills development. The semester will end with a student-generated full Camino travel guide that includes information on distance, topography, landscape, historical context, art, architecture and distinctive cultural elements of each stage, to be presented at a poster session to the whole campus community.

Offered occasionally.

Undergraduate

CO24 - CCS (Critical Conversations Seminar)